Swindon - Jun 05, 2002 - Scientists at the University of Leicester's Space Research Centre are recreating the hostile environment found on Mars in their laboratory, with a device known as the Martian Environment Simulator (MES).
Pasadena - Jun 05, 2002 - NASA has selected 28 scientists for participation in the 2003 Mars Exploration Rover Mission, including four from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The mission consists of two separate, though identical, rovers scheduled for launch in mid-2003 and arrival at separate destinations on Mars in early 2004.
Pasadena - June 4, 2002 - Flight controllers for NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft completed the last major technical milestone today in support of the science mission by unfurling the boom that holds the gamma ray spectrometer sensor head instrument.
London - Jun 03, 2002 - The Wellcome Trust biomedical research charity has agreed to help finance the mass spectrometer which is central to Beagle 2 and is being pioneered by the group at the Open University led by Beagle 2 Lead Scientist Professor Colin Pillinger.
Los Alamos - Jun 03, 2002 - Researchers with the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have determined that Mars has enough water to sustain human exploratory missions.
London - Jun 03, 2002 - Researchers at Imperial College London have just begun a 5-year project to design and build tiny earthquake measuring devices to go to Mars on the 2007 NetLander mission.
Los Angeles - May 21, 2002 - Generac Power Systems has donated a high quality power system to support the work of the Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS). The donated unit, which will serve as the MDRS' primary source of electrical power, is a 20 kilowatt generator set. This mobile unit is trailer mounted, and is powered by a 1.5 Liter liquid- cooled four cylinder engine that is fueled by LP gas.
Tucson - May 21, 2002 - Scientists from several nations begin an unprecedented 3-and-1/2-week pilot field experiment on the Santa Cruz flats near Eloy, Ariz., today, May 20, to discover how dust devils may affect atmospheres on Earth and on Mars.
Pasadena - May 9, 2002 - A view of the red planet almost completely enveloped in dust storms is one of 15,251 newly released images from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor. These images bring the total number of snapshots taken by the spacecraft to more than 93,000.
Pasadena (JPL) May 3, 2002 - As an automobile ages, it usually requires more trips to a mechanic. Spacecraft are designed for a primary mission; when all is going well, the mission is often extended to obtain more data for other research objectives.
Pasadena (JPL) Apr 30, 2002 - Weather reports from Mars, global mapping, inspection of potential landing sites, more data about the red planet than from all previous missions - no problem for the hardworking Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft.
The fabrication of the European Mars Analog Research Station (EuroMARS) has begun in earnest.
Moscow - Apr 30, 2002 - Space expeditions will fly to the Mars in fifteen years if all prerequisites are successfully met. For the future interplanetary expedition Moscow scientists have developed an efficient system to protect the crew from space radiation during the long-term travel to the Mars and back.
Los Angeles - Apr 22, 2002 - The Mars Society has announced a landmark private space mission that willhelp researchers understand the long-term effects of living on Mars. MIT(Cambridge, MA), the University of Washington (Seattle, WA), and the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia) are leading the project.
Washington - Apr 21, 2002 - Discovery channel partner SpaceRef Interactive has donated an experimental greenhouse to the SETI Institute's Center for the Study of Life in the Universe. The donation will support research activities on Devon Island, Nunavut, in the Canadian high Arctic, conducted under the auspices of the NASA Haughton-Mars Project that is developing research concepts for the human exploration of Mars.
Brighton - Apr 9, 2002 - When it was announced last month that the Mars Odyssey satellite had found water ice beneath the planet's frozen carbon dioxide south polar ice cap, Dr. Lidija Siller, a physicist from the University of Newcastle, England, felt excited. I believe that the data I have explains how this water became trapped underneath the surface,she said.
